The cold in Atlanta is still very different from the cold in the Magic City last year. It may be because of the factors that are not adapting to the local environment, so the recovery situation this time is relatively slow.

After three consecutive days of injections, Zhao Yiyang finally returned to the level of being able to play, but his game was still not very good.

This also made Tianlu a little worried, but compared with their bad news, their opponents seemed to be even worse than theirs.

According to unreliable news, VP has almost chosen to give up in this major. Although there may be players who want to play well, when the cohesion of the entire team has dropped to freezing point, the players' personal wishes can no longer determine the team's status.

Even in the past few days of training, it is difficult to win the VP, so some of them played other games directly in the hotel training room.

Although doing this may be a bit unprofessional, it will not really be criticized for the status of these players in the professional circle.

Time soon came on January 20th. The first day of the game was the same as in the qualifiers, with a total of eight BO1 games. In order to allow all viewers to appreciate the wonderful performance of CSGO's top events, these eight games started one by one.

So, the game that day started from 10 a.m. and continued until evening.

Tianlu's game was put into the second game, so they came to the offline venue with the two teams in the first game at 9 o'clock in the morning to warm up.

The first game was played between North American team Liquid and German team BIG. Although Liquid's lineup was not complete, they still beat BIG on the inferno with a score of 16-5.

This also confirms everyone's opinion before the game, that the BIG team is in a normal state.

The first game ended so quickly, which was a bit beyond people's expectations. Tianlu even felt that their technique had not yet become hot, so he was notified to prepare to join the group.

"Don't have pressure! Don't have pressure!"

Before BP, Hank had been providing psychological counseling for the players. He has now completely handed over the team's tactical playing style to the players. Therefore, he was on the court just to allow the players to reconcile the team's atmosphere when they needed to calm down.

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After the players entered the game console, the coaches of both sides began to play BP games on the game map.

In fact, in this kind of BO1 game, Tianlu still has some advantages. After all, the map they don’t play can be said to be very proficient, but they can directly ban the map they don’t play.

So, Tianlu came up and banned NUKE and the castle first, and VP didn't think much about it. He directly removed inferno, train and cache for three consecutive days.

In the last move, Tianlu has to choose between the Desert Mystery and the Death Amusement Park. Although the Desert Mystery is Tianlu’s skillful map, the Death Amusement Park is a map that is not well played by VP.

Finally, after communicating with the team members, Hank chose to remove the Mysterious Desert City.

"Oh? Tianlu didn't take the initiative to choose mirage, but chose overpass, which is interesting!"

At this time, WJQ, who was commenting on this game, did not watch the video, but was paying attention to the results of BP.

After seeing that Tianlu took the initiative to choose overpass, the audience couldn't help but feel worried about the Chinese team.

[Is it OK? I think Tianlu’s amusement park rarely hits!]

[However, Tianlu has a good winning rate in the amusement park, and she actually had a 60% winning rate last year!]

Seeing the discussion about BP on the barrage, WJQ also came out to explain: "The BP of the professional team must have his own reasons. Although Tianlu's amusement park may not be as good as their mirage, you still have to look at the opponent."

"The VP team itself does not play in amusement parks, especially in the past two years, Pasha's condition has declined. After the main snipers were asked to take it, their winning rate on this map that is more suitable for snipers to play has always been relatively low."

Indeed, before the game, Tianlu also made some preparations for the VP's winning rate on some maps in the past. Therefore, although the map of mirage remained in the end, they still chose the Death Amusement Park where VP had only a 30% winning rate in 2017.

"However, although the winning rate of this map of VP is very low, Tianlu's problem is also very troublesome. That is their core, the number one player in China CS, light is sick!"

WJQ said here that Zhao Yiyang is the "first person" does not mean that he is in the entire history of CS, but that he currently can even expand to the history of CSGO.

However, another anchor who was also broadcasting this game live affirmed Zhao Yiyang's strength, and this anchor is Xiaobo.

Xiao Bo was originally one of the wNv teams back then. He personally experienced the glory of China CS from 2005 to 2006 during the 1.6 period. However, he has said more than once that the current light is the upper limit of CS's strength in history.

From his words, we can see that he always felt that although the essence of the CS game is gun-proof, the number of versions has been changed from 1.6 to GO. The players' understanding of the game, or the training of gun use and aiming ability, must have exceeded that of more than ten years ago.

He himself felt that judging from the strength Zhao Yiyang showed in the first three games of this major, he was already the strongest.

Many viewers have never watched the wNv game back then, so they actually don’t know how powerful this team was back then, but they feel that they are very lucky to be lonely in China CS for so many years and see the birth of a real genius. Therefore, although Zhao Yiyang only played professional competition for half a year, his position in the hearts of Chinese audiences has firmly occupied the first place.

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After confirming the game map, Tianlu's players, coach and team leader hugged each other and held a routine pre-match cheering activity.

"Xiao Yi, let's fight normally today. Don't be stressed and don't be anxious!"

During the cheering process, Hank specifically pointed to Zhao Yiyang. If Zhao Yiyang was not sick, the coach basically didn't have to talk too much to Zhao Yiyang during the previous cheering process, because he has always been the most stable player in the team.

"I understand, don't worry!"

"Well, I hope we can win the VP in this game, because that's what the Swiss round is, the first game is crucial!"

"Go on the court! After winning this game, we won't have to play minor again in the second half of the year!"

No need to play minor anymore, this is undoubtedly the most inspiring Tianlu players at present, so everyone feels that their morale has completely turned green, and they can't wait to show themselves in the game!
Chapter completed!